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Popular religious art print (c. 1920-1930) without copyright notice, purchased by uploader in antique lot of assorted early deity prints, and electronically scanned and color-enhanced to counteract extreme wash-out/fading.
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Print appears signed in lower right corner, but name illegible.
Public domain; also non-profit educational use of an print originally designed as ephemera (calendar art) for devotional (i.e. not commercial or proprietary) use, from an original, non-copyrightable artwork in the public domain.
This image is exempted from copyright protection under the Indian Copyright Act of 1957, as amended: "52. (1) The following acts shall not constitute an infringement of copyright, namely [...] (t) the publishing of a painting, drawing, engraving or photograph of a sculpture, or other 'artistic work' {defined as "a painting, a sculpture, a drawing [...], an engraving or a photograph, whether or not any such work possesses artistic quality [... and] any other work of artistic craftsmanship} permanently situate in a public place or any premises to which the public has access," including religious establishments.
Also under section 52 this is "a fair dealing with [an] artistic work for the purposes of" non-profit educational usage "in a collection, mainly composed of non-copyright matter, bona fide intended" for educational usage.
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Sri Lalita-Tripurasundari enthroned with her left foot upon the Sri Chakra, holding her traditional symbols, the sugarcane bow, flower arrows, noose and goad
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